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CONSTITUTION, 
CHARTER,  AND  BY-LAWS 

OF  THE 

MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 

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OF  THE 

.METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 


HUNT  &  EATON, 

ISO  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 
1890 


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THE 

CONSTITUTION, 
CHARTER,  AND  BY-LAWS 

OF  THE 


MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 


OF  THE 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 


HUNT  &  EATON, 

ISO  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 
1890 


Officers  of  the  Society  and  Board. 


BISHOP  THOMAS  BOWMAN,  President. 

Vice-Presidents. 

Bishop  W.  F.  Mallalieu,  M.  D’C.  Crawford, 

“  C.  H.  Fowler,  James  H.  Taft, 

“  J.  H.  Vincent,  Daniel  Wise, 

“  J.  N.  FitzGerald,  A.  D.  Vail, 

“  I.  W.  Joyce,  G.  G.  Reynolds, 

“  J.  P.  Newman,  Geo.  J.  Ferry, 

“  D.  A.  Goodsell, 

“  J.  M.  Walden,  Enoch  L.  Fancher, 

John  French. 

John  M.  Reid,  Honorary  Secreta?y , 

Charles  C.  McCabe,  J.  Oramel  Peck,  Adna  B.  Leonard,  Cor.  Secretaries . 
Sandford  Hunt,  Treasurer.  Earl  Cranston,  Assistant  Treasurer. 

S.  L.  Baldwin,  Recording  Secretary . 


Bishop  R.  S.  Foster, 

“  S.  M.  Merrill, 

“  E.  G.  Andrews, 

“  H.  W.  Warren, 

“  C.  D.  Foss, 

“  J.  F.  Hurst, 

4<  W.  X.  Ninde, 


C.  B.  Fisk, 

J.  S.  McLean, 


Board  of  Managers. 


MINISTERS. 


Bishop  T.  Bowman, 

“  R.  S.  Foster, 

“  S.  M.  Merrill, 

“  E.  G.  Andrews, 

“  II.  W.  Warren, 

“  C.  D.  Foss, 

“  J.  F.  Hurst, 

“  W,  X.  Ninde, 

“  J.  M.  Walden, 

“  W.  F.  Mallalieu, 

“  C.  H.  Fowler,  , 

44  J.  H.  Vincent, 

“  J.  N.  FitzGerald 

44  '  I.  W.  Joyce, 

44  J.  P.  Newman, 

14  D.  A.  Goodsell, 


Daniel  Wise, 

M.  D’C.  Crawford, 
Albert  S.  Hunt, 
Lewis  R.  Dunn, 
Albert  D.  Vail, 
Aaron  K.  Sanford, 
John  Miley, 

John  B.  Merwin, 
Christian  F.  Grimm, 
Richard  Vanhorne, 
Alexander  L.  Brice, 
James  M.  Buckley, 

, George  G.  Saxe, 
Sandford  Hunt, 
Jacob  B.  Graw, 

James  M.  King, 


Enoch  L.  Fancher, 
James  H.  Taft, 

John  S.  McLean, 
John  French, 
Charles  C.  North, 
Gilbert  Oakley, 
Oliver  H.  P.  Archer, 
George  J.  Ferry, 
John  Stephenson, 
George  G.  Reynolds, 
Clinton  B.  Fisk, 


LAYMEN. 

Lemuel  Skidmore, 
John  D.  Slayback, 
Anderson  Fowler, 
Ezra  B,  Tuttle, 
Charles  Scott, 

Ai.den  Speare, 

Peter  A.  Welch, 
William  H.  Falconer, 
William  I.  Preston, 
John  E.  Searles,  Jr., 
James  Floy, 


Henry  A.  Buttz, 
Charles  S.  Coit, 
Samuel  F.  Upham, 
Watson  L.  Phillips, 
Thomas  H.  Burch, 
Gilbert  FI.  Gregory, 
Andrew  Longacre, 
John  F.  Goucher, 
James  R.  Day, 

Charles  S.  Harrowf.r, 
FI.  A.  Monroe, 
Benjamin  M.  Adams, 
Daniel  R.  Lowrie, 
Geo.  F.  Eaton, 

J.  W.  Mendenhall, 
John  M.  Reid. 


A.  E.  Conover, 
William  Hoyt, 

J.  Milton  Cornell, 
Samuel  C.  Pullman, 
Richard  Grant, 

H.  W.  Knight, 

Jno.  E.  Stevens, 

A.  II.  De  Haven, 

J.  A.  Punderford. 

C.  C.  Corbin. 


Standing  Committees. 


The  Treasurer  is  ex  officio  a  member  and  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  are 
advisory  members  of  each  of  the  Standing  Committees,  except  the  Committees 
on  Estimates  and  on  Audits;  and  the  Bishop  having  charge  of  a  foreign  mission 
is  an  ex-officio  member  of  the  Committee  having  charge  of  that  mission. 


J.  B.  Graw, 
J.  M.  Reid. 


On  Africa. 

A.  K.  Sanford,  Ch'n . 

W.  L.  Phillips, 

A.  Fowler, 

C;  S.  Harrower, 

J.’  Stephenson, 

H.  A.  Monroe, 

B.  M.  Adams, 

H.  W.  Knight. 

.  On  South  America  and 
Mexico. 

J.  S.  McLean,  Ch'n. 

C.  C.  North, 

A.  L.  Brice, 

A.  S.  Hunt, 

A.  Longacre, 

Geo.  F.  Eaton, 

J.  A.  Penderford, 

C.  C.  Corbin. 

On  China. 

J.  H.  Taft,  Ch'n. 

L.  R.  Dunn, 

S.  F.  Upham, 

P.  A.  Welch, 

J.  E.  Searles,  Jr., 

S.  C.  Pullman, 

J.  E.  Stevens, 

J.  M.  Reid. 

On  Europe. 

M.  D’C.  Crawford,  Ch'n. 
C.  F.  Grimm, 

C.  B.  Fisic, 

H.  A.  Buttz, 

C.  S.  Coit, 

T.  H.  Burch, 

J.  R.  Day, 

A.  H.  De  Haven, 

J.  M.  Buckley. 

On  India. 

A.  D.  Vail,  Ch'n. 

R.  Vanhorne, 

E.  B.  Tuttle, 

G.  H.  Gregory, 

J.  F.  Goucher, 

A.  E.  Conover, 

B.  M.  Adams, 

J.  M.  Cornell. 

On  Japan  and  Korea. 

C.  B.  Fisk,  Ch'n. 

J.  Miley, 


O.  H.  P.  Archer, 

G.  Oakley, 

C.  Scott, 

G.  G.  Saxe, 

D.  R.  Lowrie, 

J.  W.  Mendenhall. 

On  Self-supporting  Missions. 

Richard  Grant,  Ch'n. 
J.  S.  McLean, 
Anderson  Fowler, 

J.  M.  King, 

C.  B.  Fisk, 

J.  W.  Mendenhall, 

J.  R.  Day. 

On  Domestic  Missions. 

D.  Wise,  Ch'n. 

J.  French, 

A.  S.  Hunt, 

J.  B.  Merwin, 

C.  B.  Fisk, 

J.  D.  Slayback, 

H.  W.  Knight, 

J.  A.  Punderford. 

On  Finance. 

J.  H.  Taft,  Ch'n. 

G.  J.  Ferry, 

W.  I.  Preston, 

J.  E.  Searles,  Jr., 

A.  E.  Conover, 

Wm.  Hoyt, 

J.  M.  Cornell, 

A.  H.  De  Haven. 

On  Lands  and  Legacies. 

E.  L.  Fancher,  Ch'n. 

O.  H.  P.  Archer, 

G.  G.  Reynolds, 

L.  Skidmore, 

A.  Speare, 

P.  A.  Welch, 

J.  Floy, 

Wm.  Hoyt. 

On  Publications. 

J.  M.  King,  Ch'n. 

D.  Wise, 

J.  M.  Buckley, 

J.  F.  Goucher, 

A.  Longacre, 

G.  H.  Gregory, 

A.  K,  Sanford, 


On  Woman’s  Mission  Work. 

G.  G.  Saxe,  Ch'n. 

J.  French, 

J.  Miley, 

J.  R.  Day, 

C.  S.  PIarrower, 

D.  R.  Lowrie, 

M.  D’C.  Crawford, 

L.  R.  Dunn, 

C.  C.  Corbin. 

On  Estimates. 

J.  D.  Slayback,  Ch'n. 

A.  D.  Vail, 

J.  S.  McLean, 

W.  H.  Falconer, 

S.  F.  Upham, 

A.  L.  Brice, 

G.  J.  Ferry, 

J.  M.  Buckley. 

On  Nominations  and  Gen¬ 
eral  Reference. 

J.  S.  McLean,  Ch'n . 

A.  K.  Sanford, 

J.  PI.  Taft, 

M.  D’C.  Crawford, 

A.  D.  Vail, 

C.  B.  Fisk, 

Richard  Grant, 

D.  Wise, 

E.  L.  Fancher, 

J.  M.  King, 

G.  G.  Saxe, 

John  D.  Slayback, 

G.  Oakley. 

Audits  at  New  York, 

G.  Oakley,  Ch'n. 

E.  B.  Tuttle, 

L.  Skidmore, 

T.  H.  Burch, 

J.  Floy, 

W.  L.  Phillips, 

Richard  Grant. 

Audits  at  Cincinnati. 

J.  Cochnower,  Ch'n . 

A.  Shinkle, 

R.  A.  W.  Bruehl, 

R.  Dymond, 

E.  Sargent. 


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CONSTITUTION 

OF  THE 

Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 

AS  BEYISED  BY  THE  GENERAL  CONFERENCE  OF  1S8S. 


ARTICLE  I. 

NAME  AND  OBJECTS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

The  name  of  this  association  shall  be  “The  Missionary  Society 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.”  Its  objects  are  charjtable 
and  religious  ;  designed  to  diffuse  more  generally  the  blessings  of  educa¬ 
tion  and  Christianity,  and  to  promote  and  support  missionary  schools  and 
Christian  missions  throughout  the  United  States  and  Territories,  and  also 
in  foreign  countries,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  General  Con¬ 
ference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  may  from  time  to  time 
prescribe. 


ARTICLE  II. 

MEMBERS,  HONORARY  MANAGERS,  AND  PATRONS. 

The  payment  of  twenty  dollars  at  one  time  shall  constitute  a  member 
for  life.  Any  person  paying  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  at  one  time 
into  the  treasury  shall  be  an  honorary  manager  for  life  ;  and  the  contribu¬ 
tion  of  five  hundred  dollars  shall  constitute  the  donor  an  honorary  patron 
for  life  :  any  such  honorary  manager  or  patron  shall  be  entitled  to  a  seat, 
and  the  right  of  speaking,  but  not  of  voting,  in  the  Board  of  Managers. 

ARTICLE  III. 

BOARD  OF  MANAGERS. 

The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of  the 
said  Corporation  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  consisting  of 
the  Bishops  of  said  Church,  who  shall  be  ex-officio  members  of  said 
Board,  and  thirty-two  laymen,  and  thirty-two  traveling  ministers  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  elected  by  the  General  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  according  to  the  requirements  of  the  exist¬ 
ing  Charter  of  the  Society  :  vacancies  in  the  Board  shall  be  filled  as  the 


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Charter  provides ;  and  the  absence  without  excuse  of  any  manager  from 
six  consecutive  meetings  of  the  Board  shall  be  equivalent  to  a  resignation. 
The  Board  shall  also  have  authority  to  make  By-laws  not  inconsistent 
with  this  Constitution  or  the  Charter;  to  print  books  for  Indian  and  For¬ 
eign  Missions,  and  Missions  in  which  a  foreign  language  is  used  ;  to  elect 
a  President,  Vice-Presidents,  and  a  Recording  Secretary ;  to  fill  vacancies 
that  may  occur  among  the  officers  elective  by  its  own  body ;  and  shall 
present  a  statement  of  its  transactions  and  funds  to  the  Church  in  its  An¬ 
nual  Report,  and  also  shall  lay  before  the  General  Conference  a  report  of 
its  transactions  for  the  four  preceding  years,  and  the  state  of  its  funds. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

CORRESPONDING  SECRETARIES. 

There  shall  be  three  Corresponding  Secretaries  appointed  by  the  Gen¬ 
eral  Conference. 

They  shall  be  subject  to  the  direction  and  control  of  the  Board  of  Man¬ 
agers,  by  whom  their  salaries  shall  be  fixed,  and  their  salaries  shall  be  paid 
out  of  the  treasury.  They  shall  be  exclusively  employed  in  conducting 
the  correspondence  of  the  Society,  in  furnishing  the  Church  with  mission¬ 
ary  intelligence,  and,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board,  in  supervising  the 
missionary  work  of  the  Church,  and  by  correspondence,  traveling,  and 
otherwise,  in  promoting  the  general  interests  of  the  Society. 

Should  the  office  of  either  of  the  Secretaries  become  vacant  by  death, 
resignation,  or  otherwise,  the  Board  shall  have  power  to  provide  for  the 
duties  of  the  office  until  the  Bishops,  or  a  majority  of  them,  shall  fill  the 
vacancy. 

ARTICLE  V. 

ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS. 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  next  succeeding  the  final  ad¬ 
journment  of  the  General  Conference,  the  officers  to  be  elected  by  the 
Board  shall  be  chosen  and  hold  their  office  for  the  term  of  one  year,  or 
until  their  successors  shall  be  elected  ;  or,  if  a  vacancy  occur  during  the 
year  by  death,  resignation,  or  otherwise,  it  may  be  filled  at  any  regular 
meeting  of  the  Board. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

PRESIDING  OFFICER. 

At  all  meetings  of  the  Board,  the  President,  or,  in  his  absence,  one  of 
the  Vice-Presidents,  and  in  the  absence  of  the  President  and  of  all  the 
Vice-Presidents,  a  member  appointed  by  the  meeting  for  that  purpose, 
shall  preside. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

QUORUM. 

Thirteen  Managers  at  any  meeting  of  the  Board  shall  be  a  quorum. 


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ARTICLE  XIII- 
MINUTES. 

The  minutes  of  each  meeting  shall  be  signed  by  the  Chairman  of  the 
meeting  at  which  the  same  are  read  and  approved. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

AUXILIARY  SOCIETIES. 

It  is  recommended  that  within  the  bounds  of  each  Annual  Conference 
there  be  established  a  Conference  Missionary  Society,  auxiliary  to  this 
institution,  under  such  regulations  as  the  Conferences  shall  respectively 
prescribe. 

ARTICLE  X. 

SPECIAL  DONATIONS. 

Auxiliary  societies  or  donors  may  designate  the  Mission  or  Missions, 
under  the  care  of  this  Society,  to  which  they  desire  any  part  or  the  whole 
of  their  contributions  to  be  appropriated ;  which  special  designation  shall 
be  publicly  acknowledged  by  the  Board.  But  in  the  event  that  more  funds 
are  raised  for  any  particular  Mission  than  are  necessary  for  its  support 
the  surplus  shall  be  at  the  disposal  of  the  Board  for  the  general  purposes 
of  the  Society. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

GENERAL  MISSIONARY  COMMITTEE. 

The  General  Conference  shall  divide  the  Annual  Conferences  into 
fourteen  Mission  Districts,  from  each  of  which  there  shall  be  one  repre¬ 
sentative,  to  be  appointed  for  the  term  of  four  years  by  the  General  Con¬ 
ference  at  each  of  its  sessions,  on  the  nomination  of  the  delegates  of  the 
Annual  Conferences  within  the  Mission  Districts  respectively,  and  four¬ 
teen  representatives,  to  be  appointed  annually  by  the  Board  of  Managers 
from  its  own  members,  who,  with  the  Corresponding  and  Recording  Sec¬ 
retaries  and  the  Treasurers  of  the  Society  and  the  Board  of  Bishops,  shall 
constitute  a  committee,  to  be  called  the  General  Missionary  Committee  ; 
provided  that  the  Bishops  shall  fill  any  vacancy  that  may  occur  among 
the  members  appointed  by  the  General  Conference,  so  that  each  Mission 
District  may  be  fully  represented  at  each  annual  meeting. 

The  General  Missionary  Committee  shall  meet  annually  at  such  place 
in  the  United  States  as  the  Committee  may,  from  year  to  year,  determine, 
and  at  such  time  in  the  month  of  November  as  shall  be  determined  by  the 
Secretaries  and  Treasurers,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be  given  to  each 
member  ;  and  the  Bishops  shall  preside  over  the  deliberations  of  the  Com¬ 
mittee  ;  but  the  Annual  Meeting  of  said  Committee,  which  for  the  year 
1888  shall  be  held  in  the  city  of  New  York,  shall  not  be  held  in  the  same 
city  more  frequently  than  once  in  four  years. 

Said  General  Missionary  Committee  shall  determine  what  fields  shall 


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he  occupied  as  Foreign  Missions,  the  number  of  persons  to  be  employed 
on  said  Missions,  and  the  amount  necessary  for  the  support  of  each  Mis¬ 
sion  ;  and  it  shall  also  determine  the  amount  for  which  each  Bishop  may 
draw  for  the  Domestic  Missions  of  the  Conferences  over  which  he  shall 
preside,  and  the  Bishop  shall  not  draw  on  the  Treasurers  for  more  than 
said  amount.  Nevertheless,  in  the  intervals  between  the  meetings  of  the 
General  Missionary  Committee,  the  Board  of  Managers  may  provide  for 
any  unforeseen  emergency  that  may  arise  in  any  of  our  Missions,  and  to 
meet  such  demands  may  expend  any  additional  amount  not  exceeding 
twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

The  General  Missionary  Committee  shall  be  amenable  to  the  General 
Conference,  to  which  it  shall  make  a  full  report  of  its  doings. 

Any  expenses  incurred  in  the  discharge  of  its  duties  shall  be  paid  from 
the  treasury  of  the  Society. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

SUPPORT  OF  SUPERANNUATED  AND  OTHER  MISSIONARIES. 

The  Board  may  provide  for  the  support  of  superannuated  missionaries, 
widows  and  orphans  of  missionaries,  who  may  not  be  provided  for  by 
their  Annual  Conferences  respectively,  it  being  understood  that  they  shall 
not  receive  more  than  is  usually  allowed  to  other  superannuated  minis¬ 
ters,  their  widows  and  orphans. 

The  amount  allowed  for  the  support  of  a  missionary  shall  not  exceed 
the  usual  allowance  of  other  itinerant  preachers  ;  and  in  the  case  of  Do¬ 
mestic  Missions  the  Bishop  or  president  of  the  Conference  shall  draw  for 
the  same  in  quarterly  installments,  and  shall  always  promptly  notify  the 
Treasurer  of  all  drafts  made  by  him.  The  administration  of  appropria¬ 
tions  to  Foreign  Missions  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  of 
Managers. 

No  one  shall  be  acknowledged  as  a  missionary,  or  receive  support  as 
such  from  the  funds  of  the  Society,  who  has  not  some  definite  field  as¬ 
signed  to  him  in  the  service  of  the  Society,  or  who  could  not  be  an  effect¬ 
ive  laborer  on  a  circuit,  except  as  above  provided. 

ARTICLE  XIII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

This  Constitution  shall  be  subject  to  alteration  or  amendment  only  by 
the  General  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


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ACT  OF  INCORPORATION. 


AN  ACT  to  incorporate  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church .  Passed  April  9,  1839. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York ,  represented  in  Senate  and  Assem¬ 
bly ,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  i.  Robert  R.  Roberts,  Joshua  Soule,  Elijah  Hedding,  James 
O.  Andrew,  Beverly  Waugh,  Thomas  A.  Morris,  Daniel  Ostrander,  Na¬ 
than  Bangs,  Thomas  Mason,  George  Lane,  Francis  Hall,  Joseph  Smith, 
Peter  Badeau,  D.  M.  Reese,  M.D.,  George  Innes,  M.  Houseworth,  Philip 
Romaine,  L.  S.  Burling,  J.  P.  Aimes,  John  Valentine,  William  Gale,  Abra¬ 
ham  Stagg,  Erastus  Hyde,  Henry  Moore,  James  Harper,  Thomas  Brown, 
Peter  Macnamara,  William  B.  Skidmore,  Stephen  Dando,  J.  B.  Oakley, 
Henry  Worrall,  George  Suckley,  T.  Barrett,  M.D.,  G.  Coutant,  J.  L. 
Phelps,  M.D.,  B.  F.  Howe,  Israel  D.  Disosway,  G.  P.  Disosway,  Benja¬ 
min  Disbrow,  Ralph  Mead,  Jotham  S.  Fountain,  Samuel  Martin,  and  all 
persons  who  now  are,  or  hereafter  may  become,  associated  with  them,  are 
hereby  constituted  a  body  corporate,  by  the  name  of  “The  Missionary 
Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  and  by  that  name  and  style 
be  capable  of  purchasing,  holding,  and  conveying  such  real  estate  as  the 
purposes  of  the  Corporation  shall  require ;  but  the  annual  income  of  the 
real  estate  to  be  held  by  them  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars. 

Sec.  2.  The  object  of  the  said  Corporation  is  to  diffuse  more  generally 
the  blessings  of  education,  civilization,  and  Christianity,  throughout  the 
United  States,  and  elsewhere. 

Sec.  3.  The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of 
the  said  Corporation  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  to  be  elected 
annually  on  the  third  Monday  in  April,  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

Sec.  4.  The  persons  named  in  the  first  section  of  this  Act  shall  be  the 
first  Board  of  Managers  of  such  Corporation,  and  shall  hold  their  offices 
until  the  next  annual  election,  or  until  others  shall  be  elected  in  their 
places. 

Sec.  5.  The  said  Corporation  shall  possess  the  general  powers  and  be 
subject  to  the  liabilities  imposed  in  and  by  the  third  title  of  the  eighteenth 
chapter  of  the  first  part  of  the  Revised  Statutes. 

Sec.  6.  The  Legislature  may  at  any  time  alter  or  repeal  this  Act. 

Sec.  7,  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


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AN  ACT  for  the  relief  of  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  Passed  April  6,  1850. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate  and  As¬ 
sembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  i.  The  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
incorporated  on  the  9th  of  April,  1839,  shall  be  capable  of  taking,  hold¬ 
ing,  or  receiving,  any  real  estate,  by  virtue  of  any  devise  contained  in  any 
last  will  and  testament  of  any  person  whatsoever,  the  clear  annual  income 
of  which  devise  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  :  Pro¬ 
vided,  no  person  leaving  a  wife,  or  child,  or  parent,  shall  devise  to  such 
Corporation  more  than  one  fourth  of  his  or  her  estate,  after  the  payment 
of  his  or  her  debts ;  and  such  devise  shall  be  valid  to  the  extent  of  such 
one  fourth  ;  and  no  such  devise  shall  be  valid  in  any  will  which  shall  not 
have  been  made  and  executed  at  least  two  months  before  the  death  of  the 
testator. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


AN  ACT  to  amend  “An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Missionary  Society  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church."  Passed  fune  30,  1853. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate  a?id  As¬ 
sembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  i.  The  third  section  of  “An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Mission¬ 
ary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  passed  April  9,  1839,  is 
hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

Sec.  3.  The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of 
the  said  Corporation ‘shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  to  be  an¬ 
nually  elected  at  a  meeting  of  the  Society  to  be  called  for  that  purpose, 
and  held  in  the  city  of  New  York,  at  such  time  and  on  such  notice  as  the 
Board  of  Managers  for  the  time  being  shall  previously  prescribe  :  such 
Board  shall  consist  of  not  less  than  thirty-two  lay  members,  and  of  so 
many  clerical  members,  not  exceeding  that  number,  as  shall  be  determined 
upon  at  such  annual  meeting,  and  each  of  whom  shall  be  a  minister  in 
good  and  regular  standing  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  The 
Board  of  Managers  shall  have  power  to  fill  any  vacancy  that  may  happen, 
until  the  ensuing  annual  election.  Thirteen  members  of  the  Board  at  any 
meeting  thereof  shall  be  a  sufficient  number  for  the  transaction  of  bus¬ 
iness  ;  and  at  any  meeting  of  the  Society,  twenty-five  members  of  the 
Society  shall  be  a  sufficient  quorum. 

AN  ACT  to  consolidate  the  several  Acts  relating  to  the  Missionary  So¬ 
ciety  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  into  one  Act,  and  to  amend 
the  same.  Passed  April  11,  1859. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York ,  represented  in  Senate  and  As¬ 
sembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  i.  The  Act  entitled,  “An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Missionary 
Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  passed  April  ninth,  eighteen 


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[1889. 

hundred  and  thirty-nine,  and  the  several  acts  amendatory  thereof,  and  re¬ 
lating  to  the  said  Society,  are  respectively  hereby  amended  and  consolidated 
into  one  Act ;  and  the  several  provisions  thereof  as  thus  amended  and 
consolidated,  are  comprised  in  the  following  sections : 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  associated  or  who  may  become  associated  together 
in  the  Society  above  named,  are  constituted  a  body  corporate,  by  the  name 
and  style  of  “  The  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”* 
and  are  hereby  declared  to  have  been  such  body  corporate  since  the  pas¬ 
sage  of  said  Act  of  April  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty-nine ;  and 
such  Corporation  are  and  shall  be  capable  of  purchasing,  holding,  and 
conveying  such  real  estate  as  the  purposes  of  the  said  Corporation  shall 
require  ;  but  the  annual  income  of  the  real  estate  held  by  them  at  any  one 
time,  within  the  State  of  New  York,  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  thirty 
thousaad  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  The  objects  of  the  said  Corporation  are  charitable  and  religious ; 
designed  to  diffuse  more  generally  the  blessings  of  education  and  Chris¬ 
tianity,  and  to  promote  and  support  missionary  schools  and  Christian  mis¬ 
sions  throughout  the  United  States  and  the  continent  of  America,  and 
also  in  foreign  countries. 

SEC.  4.  The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of 
the  said  Corporation  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  to  be  annu¬ 
ally  elected  at  a  meeting  of  the  Society  to  be  called  for  that  purpose,  and 
held  in  the  city  of  New  York,  at  such  time  and  on  such  notice  as  the 
Board  of  Managers,  for  the  time  being,  shall  previously  prescribe.  Such 
Board  shall  consist  of  not  less  than  thirty-two  lay  members,  belonging  to 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  of  so  many  clerical  members,  not 
exceeding  that  number,  as  shall  be  determined  upon  at  such  annual  meet¬ 
ing,  and  each  of  whom  shall  be  a  minister  in  good  and  regular  standing  in 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Such  Board  of  Managers  may  fill  any 
vacancy  happening  therein,  until  the  term  shall  commence  of  the  Managers 
elected  at  such  annual  meeting  ;  shall  have  power  to  direct  by  what  officer 
the  conveyance  of  real  estate  by  said  Corporation  shall  be  executed  ;  and 
shall  have  such  other  power  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  management  and 
disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of  the  said  Corporation. 

Sec.  5.  Thirteen  members  of  the  said  Board  of  Managers,  at  any 
meeting  thereof,  shall  be  a  sufficient  number  for  the  transaction  of  business ; 
and  at  any  meeting  of  the  Society,  twenty-five  members  shall  be  a  suffi¬ 
cient  quorum.  The  Managers  elected  at  each  annual  meeting  of  the 
Society  shall  be  the  managers  of  such  Corporation  for  one  year  from  the 
first  day  of  January  following,  and  until  others,  elected  in  their  places, 
shall  be  competent  to  assume  their  duties. 

Sec.  6.  The  said  Corporation  shall  be  capable  of  taking,  receiving,  or 
holding  any  real  estate,  by  virtue  of  any  devise  contained  in  any  last  will 
and  testament  of  any  person  whomsoever;  subject,  however,  to  the  lim¬ 
itation  expressed  in  the  second  section  of  this  Act,  as  to  the  aggregate 
amount  of  such  real  estate  ;  and  the  said  Corporation  shall  be  also  com¬ 
petent  to  act  as  a  trustee  in  respect  to  any  devise  or  bequest  pertaining  to 


ACT  OF  INCORPORATION. 


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the  objects  of  said  Corporation  ;  any  devises  or  bequests  of  real  or  per¬ 
sonal  property  may  be  made  directly  to  said  Corporation,  or  in  trust,  for 
any  of  the  purposes  comprehended  in  the  general  objects  of  said  Society ; 
and  such  trusts  may  continue  for  such  time  as  may  be  necessary  to  ac¬ 
complish  the  purposes  for  which  they  may  be  created. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  Corporation  shall  also  possess  the  general  powers 
specified  in  and  by  the  third  title  of  the  third  article  of  chapter  eighteen 
of  the  first  part  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Sec.  8.  The  Legislature  may  at  any  time  alter  or  repeal  this  Act. 

Sec.  9.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


AN  ACT  to  Ajnend  the  Charter  of  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church.  Passed  April  14,  1869. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York ,  represented  in  Senate  and  As¬ 
sembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  i.  The  Act  entitled  “An  Act  to  consolidate  the  several  Acts 
relating  to  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  into 
one  Act,  and  to  amend  the  same,  passed  April  11,  1859;”  and  the  Act 
entitled  “  A11  Act  to  incorporate  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,”  passed  April  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty-nine, 
and  the  several  Acts  Amendatory  thereof,  and  relating  to  the  said  Society, 
are  respectively  hereby  amended  and  consolidated  into  one  Act ;  and  the 
several  provisions  thereof  as  thus  amended  and  consolidated  are  com¬ 
prised  in  the  following  sections  : 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  associated  or  who  may  become  associated  together 
in  the  Society  above  named  are  constituted  a  body  corporate,  by  the  name 
and  style  of  “The  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,” 
and  are  hereby  declared  to  have  been  such  body  corporate  since  the  pas¬ 
sage  of  said  Act  of  April  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty-nine  ;  and 
such  Corporation  are  and  shall  be  capable  of  purchasing,  holding,  and 
conveying  such  real  estate  as  the  purposes  of  the  said  Corporation  shall 
require ;  but  the  annual  income  of  the  real  estate  held  by  them  at  any 
one  time,  within  the  State  of  New  York,  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of 
thirty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  The  objects  of  the  said  Corporation  are  charitable  and  relig¬ 
ious  ;  designed  to  diffuse  more  generally  the  blessings  of  education  and 
Christianity,  and  to  promote  and  support  missionary  schools  and  Chris¬ 
tian  missions  throughout  the  United  States  and  Territories,  and  also  in 
foreign  countries. 

Sec.  4.  The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property 
of  the  said  Corporation  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  to  be 
annually  elected  at  a  meeting  of  the  Society  to  be  called  for  that  purpose, 
and  held  in  the  city  of  New  York,  at  such  time  and  on  such  notice  as  the 
Board  of  Managers,  for  the  time  being,  shall  previously  prescribe.  Such 
Board  shall  consist  of  thirty-two  laymen  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
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386  MISSIONARY  REPORT,  [1 889. 

Church,  and  thirty-two  traveling  ministers  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Such  Board  of  Managers  may  fill  any  vacancy  happening  therein, 
until  the  term  shall  commence  of  the  Managers  elected  at  such  annual 
meeting  ;  shall  have  power  to  direct  by  what  officer  the  conveyance  of  real 
estate  by  said  Corporation  shall  be  executed  ;  and  shall  have  such  other 
power  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  management  and  disposition  of  the 
affairs  and  property  of  the  said  Corporation,  in  conformity  with  the  Con¬ 
stitution  of  said  Society  as  it  now  exists,  or  as  it  may,  in  the  manner 
therein  provided,  be  from  time  to  time  amended. 

Sec.  5.  Thirteen  members  of  the  said  Board  of  Managers,  at  any  meet¬ 
ing  thereof,  shall  be  a  sufficient  number  for  the  transaction  of  business  ; 
and  at  any  meeting  of  the  Society  twenty-five  members  shall  be  a  quorum. 
The  Managers  elected  at  each  annual  meeting  of  the  Society  shall  be  the 
Managers  of  such  Corporation  for  one  year  from  the  first  day  of  January 
following,  and  until  others,  elected  in  their  places,  shall  be  competent  to 
assume  their  duties.  The  Corresponding  Secretaries  of  said  Society  shall 
be  elected  by  the  General  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  shall  hold  their  office  for  four  years,  and  until  their  successors  are 
elected  ;  and  in  case  of  a  vacancy  by  resignation,  death,  or  otherwise,  the 
Bishops  of  the  said  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  shall  elect  their  suc¬ 
cessors,  to  hold  their  office  till  the  ensuing  General  Conference. 

Sec.  6.  The  said  Corporation  shall  be  capable  of  taking,  receiving,  or 
holding  any  real  estate,  by  virtue  of  any  devise  contained  in  any  last  will 
and  testament  of  any  person  whomsoever ;  subject,  however,  to  the  lim¬ 
itation  expressed  in  the  second  section  of  this  Act,  as  to  the  aggregate 
amount  of  such  real  estate ;  and  also  to  all  provisions  of  law  now  existing 
in  relation  to  devises  and  bequests  ;  and  the  said  Corporation  shall  be  also 
competent  to  act  as  a  Trustee  in  respect  to  any  devise  or  bequest  pertain¬ 
ing  to  the  objects  of  said  Corporation  ;  and  devises  and  bequests  of  real 
or  personal  property  may  be  made  directly  to  said  Corporation,  or  in  trust, 
for  any  of  the  purposes  comprehended  in  the  general  objects  of  said  So¬ 
ciety  ;  and  such  trusts  may  continue  for  such  time  as  may  be  necessary 
to  accomplish  the  purposes  for  which  they  may  be  created. 

Sec.  7.  The  said  Corporation  shall  also  possess  the  general  powers 
specified  in  and  by  the  third  title  of  chapter  eighteen  of  the  first  part 
of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Sec.  8.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

AN  ACT  to  Amend  the  Charter  of  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church .  Passed  April  4,  1873. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate  and  Assem¬ 
bly,  do  e?iact  as  follows  : 

Section  i.  The  Act  entitled  “An  Act  to  Amend  the  Charter  of  the 
Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  passed  April 
fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-nine ;  also  the  Act  entitled  “  An 
Act  to  Consolidate  the  several  Acts  relating  to  the  Missionary  Society  of 


A£T  OF  INCORPORATION. 


387 


1889.] 

the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  into  one  Act,  and  to  amend  the  same," 
passed  April  eleventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-nine ;  and  the  Act  en¬ 
titled  “  An  Act  to  Incorporate  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,"  passed  April  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty-nine, 
and  the  several  Acts  amendatory  thereof,  and  relating  to  the  said  Society, 
are  respectively  hereby  amended  and  consolidated  into  one  Act ;  and  the 
several  provisions  thereof,  as  thus  amended  and  consolidated,  are  com¬ 
prised  in  the  following  sections  : 

Sec.  2.  All  persons  associated,  or  who  may  become  associated, 
together  in  the  Society  above  named  are  constituted  a  body  corporate,  by 
the  name  and  style  of  “  The  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church,”  and  are  hereby  declared  to  have  been  such  body  corporate 
since  the  passage  of  said  Act  of  April  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty- 
nine  ;  and  such  Corporation  is  and  shall  be  capable  of  purchasing,  hold¬ 
ing,  and  conveying  such  real  estate  as  the  purposes  of  the  said  Corpora¬ 
tion  shall  require  ;  but  the  annual  income  of  the  estate  held  by  it  at  any 
one  time,  within  the  State  of  New  York,  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of 
seventy-five  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  The  objects  of  the  said  Corporation  are  charitable  and  relig¬ 
ious  ;  designed  to  diffuse  more  generally  the  blessings  of  education  and 
Christianity,  and  to  promote  and  support  missionary  schools  and  Christian 
missions  throughout  the  United  States  and  Territories,  and  also  in  for¬ 
eign  countries. 

Sec.  4.  The  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property 
of  the  said  Corporation  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  Managers,  com¬ 
posed  of  thirty-two  laymen  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and 
thirty-two  traveling  ministers  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  ap¬ 
pointed  by  the  General  Conference  of  said  Church  at  its  quadrennial  ses¬ 
sions,  and  of  the  Bishops  of  said  Church,  who  shall  be  ex-officiQ  members 
of  said  Board.  Such  Managers  as  were  appointed  by  said  General  Con¬ 
ference  at  its  last  session  shall  be  entitled  to  act  as  such  from  and  after 
the  passage  of  this  Act,  until  they  or  others  appointed  by  the  ensuing 
General  Conference  shall  assume  their  duties.  Any  such  Board  of  Man¬ 
agers  may  fill  any  vacancy  happening  therein  until  the  term  shall  com¬ 
mence  of  the  Managers  appointed  by  an  ensuing  General  Conference, 
said  Board  of  Managers  shall  have  such  power  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  management  and  disposition  of  the  affairs  and  property  of  said  Cor¬ 
poration,  in  conformity  with  the  Constitution  of  said  Society  as  it  now 
exists,  or  as  it  may  be  from  time  to  time  amended  by  the  General  Con¬ 
ference,  and  to  elect  the  officers  of  the  Society,  except  as  herein  other¬ 
wise  provided  ;  and  such  Board  of  Managers  shall  be  subordinate  to  any 
directions  or  regulations  nwle,  or  to  be  made,  by  said  General  Conference. 

Sec.  5.  Thirteen  members  of  the  said  Board  of  Managers,  at  any 
meeting  thereof,  shall  be  a  sufficient  number  for  the  transaction  of  bus¬ 
iness.  The  Corresponding  Secretaries,  the  Treasurer,  and  the  Assistant 
Treasurer  of  said  Society  shall  be  elected  by  the  General  Conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  shall  hold  their  office  for  four  years. 


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[1889. 

and  until  their  successors  are  elected  ;  and  in  case  of  a  vacancy  by  resig¬ 
nation,  death,  or  otherwise,  the  Bishops  of  the  said  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  shall  fill  any  vacancy  in  the  office  till  the  ensuing  General  Confer¬ 
ence.  And  until  the  next  session  of  the  General  Conference  said  Board 
of  Managers  may  appoint  and  remove  at  pleasure  the  Treasurer  and  the 
Assistant  Treasurer  of  said  Corporation  ;  and  the  latter  officer  may  exer¬ 
cise  his  duties,  as  the  Board  may  direct,  in  any  State. 

SEC.  6.  The  said  Corporation  shall  be  capable  of  taking,  receiving,  or 
holding  any  real  estate,  by  virtue  of  any  devise  contained  in  any  last  will 
and  testament  of  any  person  whomsoever;  subject,  however,  to  the  lim¬ 
itation  expressed  in  the  second  section  of  this  Act  as  to  the  aggregate 
amount  of  such  real  estate,  and  also  to  the  provisions  of  an  Act  entitled 
“  An  Act  Relating  to  Wills,”  passed  April  thirteen,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty ;  and  the  said  Corporation  shall  be  also  competent  to  act  as  a  Trus¬ 
tee  in  respect  to  any  devise  or  bequest  pertaining  to  the  objects  of  said 
Corporation,  and  devises  and  bequests  of  real  or  personal  property  may  be 
made  directly  to  said  Corporation,  or  in  trust,  for  any  of  the  purposes 
comprehended  in  the  general  objects  of  said  Society;  and  such  trusts  may 
continue  for  such  time  as  may  be  necessary  to  accomplish  the  purposes 
for  which  they  may  be  created. 

Sec.  7.  The.  said  Corporation  shall  also  possess  the  general  powers 
specified  in  and  by  the  Third  Title  of  Chapter  Eighteen  of  the  First  Part 
of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

Sec.  8.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


Part  I,  Chapter  XVI il,  Third  Title  of  Art.  3. 

OF  THE  GENERAL  POWERS,  PRIVILEGES,  AND  LIABILITIES  OF  COR¬ 
PORATIONS. 

Section  i.  Every  Corporation,  as  such,  has  power: 

1.  To  have  succession,  by  its  corporate  name,  for  the  period  limited  in  its 

Charter ;  and  when  no  period  is  limited,  perpetually. 

2.  To  sue  and  be  sued,  complain  and  defend,  in  any  court  of  law  or  equity. 

3.  To  make  and  use  a  common  seal,  and  alter  the  same  at  pleasure. 

4.  To  hold,  purchase,  and  convey  such  real  and  personal  estate  as  the 

purposes  of  the  Corporation  shall  require,  not  exceeding  the  amount 
limited  in  the  Charter. 

5.  To  appoint  such  subordinate  officers  and  agents  as  the  business  of  the 

Corporation  shall  require,  and  to  allow  them  a  suitable  compensation. 

6.  To  make  By-laws,  not  inconsistent  with  any  existing  law,  for  the  man¬ 

agement  of  its  property,  the  regulation  ^of  its  affairs,  and  for  the 
transfer  of  its  stock. 

Sec.  2.  The  powers  enumerated  in  the  preceding  section  shall  vest  in 
every  Corporation  that  shall  hereafter  be  created,  although  they  may 
not  be  specified  in  its  Charter,  or  in  the  act  under  which  it  shall  be  incor¬ 
porated. 


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§EC.  3.  In  addition  to  the  powers  enumerated  in  the  first  section  of 
this  title,  and  to  those  expressly  given  in  its  Charter,  or  in  the  act  under 
which  it  is  or  shall  be  incorporated,  no  Corporation  shall  possess  or  exer¬ 
cise  any  corporate  powers,  except  such  as  shall  be  necessary  to  the  exer¬ 
cise  of  the  powers  so  enumerated  and  given. 

Sec.  4.  No  Corporation  created,  or  to  be  created,  and  not  expressly 
incorporated  for  banking  purposes,  shall,  by  any  implication  or  construc¬ 
tion,  be  deemed  to  possess  the  power  of  discounting  bills,  notes,  or  other 
evidences  of  debt ;  of  receiving  deposits  ;  of  buying  gold  and  silver,  bull¬ 
ion,  or  foreign  coins  ;  of  buying  and  selling  bills  of  exchange,  or  of  issuing 
bills,  notes,  or  other  evidences  of  debt,  upon  loan,  or  for  circulation  as 
money. 

Sec.  5.  Where  the  whole  capital  of  a  Corporation  shall  not  have  been 
paid  in,  and  the  capital  paid  shall  be  insufficient  to  satisfy  the  claims  of  its 
creditors/each  stockholder  shall  be  bound  to  pay,  on  each  share  held  by 
him,  the  sum  necessary  to  complete  the  amount  of  such  share,  as  fixed 
by  the  Charter  of  the  Company,  or  such  proportion  of  that  sum  as  shall 
be  required  to  satisfy  the  debts  of  the  Company. 

Sec.  6.  When  the  corporate  powers  of  any  Corporation  are  directed 
by  its  Charter  to  be  exercised  by  any  particular  body,  or  number  of  per¬ 
sons,  a  majority  of  such  body,  or  persons,  if  it  be  not  otherwise  provided 
in  the  charter,  shall  be  a  sufficient  number  to  form  a  board  for  the  trans¬ 
action  of  business ;  and  every  decision  of  a  majority  of  the  persons  duly 
assembled  as  a  board  shall  be  valid  as  a  corporate  act. 

Sec.  7.  If  any  Corporation  hereafter  created  by  the  Legislature  shall 
not  organize  and  commence  the  transaction  of  its  business  within  one 
year  from  the  date  of  its  incorporation,  its  corporate  power  shall  cease. 

Sec.  8.  The  Charter  of  every  Corporation  that  shall  hereafter  be  granted 
by  the  Legislature  shall  be  subject  to  alteration,  suspension,  and  repeal, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  Legislature. 

Sec.  9.  Upon  the  dissolution  of  any  Corporation  created,  or  to  be 
created,  and  unless  other  persons  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Legislature, 
or  by  some  court  of  competent  authority,  the  directors  or  managers  ot 
the  affairs  of  such  Corporation  at  the  time  of  its  dissolution,  by  whatever 
name  they  may  be  known  in  law,  shall  be  the  trustees  of  the  creditors 
and  stockholders  of  the  Corporation  dissolved,  and  shall  have  full  power 
to  settle  the  affairs  of  the  'Corporation,  collect  and  pay  the  outstanding 
debts,  and  divide  among  the  stockholders  the  moneys  and  other  property 
that  shall  remain  after  the  payment  of  debts  and  necessary  expenses. 

Sec.  10.  The  persons  so  constituted  trustees  shall  have  authority  to 
sue  for,  and  recover,  the  debts  and  property  of  the  dissolved  Corporation, 
by  the  name  of  the  trustee#  of  such  Corporation,  and  shall  have  full  power 
to  settle  the  affairs  of  the  Corporation,  describing  it  by  its  corporate  name, 
and  shall  be  jointly  and  severally  responsible  to  the  creditors  and  stock¬ 
holders  of  such  Corporation  to  the  extent  of  its  property  and  effects  that 
shall  come  into  their  hands. 


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BY-LAWS 

OF  THE 

BOARD  OF  MANAGERS 

OF  THE 

MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  OF  THE  METHODIST 

EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 


I. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  OFFICERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

President  and  Vice-Presidents. 

The  duties  of  these  officers  are  defined  in  the  Constitution.  The 
President,  or  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of 
the  Society  and  of  the  Board,  as  prescribed  by  Article  VI  of  the  Constitu¬ 
tion  ;  and  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  during  the  year  for  which  they 
may  be  elected,  unless  the  Board  of  Managers  otherwise  determine.  If 
the  President  and  all  the  Vice-Presidents  be  absent  then  the  Board  may 
elect  a  President  pro  te7n. 

Corresponding  Secretaries. 

The  Corresponding  Secretaries  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board 
of  Managers,  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the  Society  with  its  Missions, 
and  be  exclusively  employed  in  promoting  its  general  interests.  They 
shall  advocate  the  missionary  cause  at  such  Annual  Conferences  and 
Churches  as  their  judgment  may  dictate  and  the  Board  approve.  They 
shall  keep  a  vigilant  eye  upon  all  the  affairs  of  the  Society,  and  especially 
upon  all  its  Missions,  and  promptly  convey  to  the  Bishops  having  charge 
of  the  Missions  respectively,  to  the  Board,  or  the  standing  committees,  all 
such  communications  from,  and  all  information  concerning,  our  Missions, 
as  the  circumstances  of  the  case  may  require.  They  shall  also  in  all  cases 
give  to  such  missionaries  as  may  be  sent  out  the  Manual  of  Instructions 
authorized  by  the  Board,  with  such  other  instructions  and  explanations  as 
circumstances  may  call  for,  and  shall  explicitly  inform  all  our  missionaries 
that  they  are  in  no  case  to  depart  from  such  instructions.  They  shall  also 
audit  the  accounts  of  outgoing,  returned,  or  .discharged  foreign  mission¬ 
aries  before  the  final  settlement  of  the  same,  and  all  bills  for  office  and 


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incidental  expenses  before  they  are  presented  to  the  Treasurer  for  pay¬ 
ment.  They  shall  also  superintend  all  property  interests  of  the  Society, 
exclusive  of  its  current  receipts,  permanent  or  special  funds,  and  fixed 
property,  subject  to  instructions  from  the  Board  of  Managers. 

Treasurer. 

The  Treasurer  shall  keep  proper  books  of  accounts,  showing  all  the 
receipts  and  disbursements,  and  all  other  financial  affairs  connected  with 
the  treasury  of  the  Society,  except  such  as  are  committed  to  the  care  of 
the  Corresponding  Secretaries.  He  shall,  under  advice  of  the  Finance 
Committee,  keep  all  uninvested  moneys  of  the  Society  on  deposit  in  some 
safe  bank,  or  banks,  in  the  name  of  the  Society,  subject  to  the  order  of 
its  Treasurer.  He  shall  honor  all  orders  of  the  Board  on  the  treasury, 
and,  within  the  several  appropriations  made  by  the  General  Committee 
and  Board,  shall  pay  all  drafts  of  the  Bishops,  and  furnish  the  Secretaries 
respectively  with  Letters  of  Credit  or  Bills  of  Exchange  for  the  support  of 
Foreign  Missions;  and  he  shall,  on  the  warrant  of  the  Corresponding 
Secretaries,  pay  the  outfit  of  missionaries  and  the  expenses  of  those  au¬ 
thorized  to  return,  and  shall  pay  all  bills  for  office  and  incidental  expenses 
when  properly  audited.  He  shall  be  subject  to  the  direction  of  the  Finance 
Committee,  and  of  the  Board,  in  respect  to  all  investments,  loans,  and 
other  financial  affairs  of  the  Society.  He  shall  report  the  state  of  the 
funds,  and  whenever  required  exhibit  his  books,  vouchers,  and  securities 
at  each  regular  meeting  of  the  Finance  Committee  and  of  the  Auditing 
Committee;  and  shall  report  monthly  to  the  Board  the  state  of  the  treas¬ 
ury.  He  shall  keep  an  account  of  all  receipts  by  Conferences,  and  of  all 
expenditures  by  Missions  and  particular  appropriations. 

He  shall  keep  the  seal  of  the  Society  and  affix  the  same  to  such  docu¬ 
ments,  contracts,  and  conveyances  as  may  be  ordered  by  the  Board  of 
Managers  ;  shall  execute  for  the  Society  conveyances  of  real  estate  when¬ 
ever  ordered  by  the  Board. 

Assistant  Treasurer. 

The  Assistant  Treasurer  shall  reside  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  shall  be 
subject  to  the  directions  of  the  Board  of  Managers  and  of  the  Treasurer. 

He  shall  forward  to  the  Treasurer,  monthly,  a  statement  of  his  ac¬ 
counts  to  the  first  of  each  month,  in  order  that  the  same  may  be  presented 
to  the  Board  at  its  regular  meetings.  He  shall  exhibit  his  books  and  ac¬ 
counts,  vouchers,  and  securities,  to  such  auditors  as  may  be  appointed  by 
the  Board. 

Recording  Secretary. 

The  Recording  Secretary  shall  notify  all  meetings  of  the  Board  and  of 
the  Society,  and  shall  record  the  minutes  of  their  proceedings.  He  shall 
also  certify  to  the  Treasurer,  or  to  the  Auditing  Committee,  as  the  case 
may  require,  all  moneys  granted,  or  expenditures  authorized  in  pursuance 
of  the  action  of  the  Board. 


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[1889. 


He  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries,  make 
an  appropriate  record  of  all  wills  under  which  the  Society  may  be  inter¬ 
ested,  and  of  all  action  of  the  Board,  and  other  information  relating 
thereto. 

He  shall,  under  like  direction,  also  record  a  statement  of  all  the  prop¬ 
erty  of  the  Society,  and  of  any  conveyances  thereof,  or  other  proceedings 
touching  the  same. 

He  shall,  under  like  direction,  keep  the  roll  of  the  officers  and  Man¬ 
agers,  and  of  the  members  of  the  several  standing  committees,  in  the 
proper  order  according  to  the  seniority  of  their  consecutive  service  respect¬ 
ively,  except  that  the  chairman  of  each  committee  shall  be  first  named, 
and  shall  see  that  such  lists  are  printed  in  such  order  in  the  Annual  Re¬ 
ports. 

He  shall  also  record  the  proceedings  of  the  several  standing  commit¬ 
tees  in  separate  books,  which  shall  be  brought  to  each  meeting  of  the 
Board  ;  and  shall  notify,  when  requested,  all  meetings  of  committees  ;  and 
he  shall  hold  his  office  during  the  year  for  which  he  may  be  elected,  un¬ 
less  the  Board  of  Managers  otherwise  determine. 


11. 

FINANCIAL  REGULATIONS. 

Appropriations  made  by  the  General  Missionary  Committee  for  the 
payment  of  salaries  of  missionaries,  where  a  schedule  of  salaries  has  been 
fixed  by  the  Board  of  Managers  for  any  Mission,  or  for  the  authorized 
current  expenses  of  an  established  Mission,  or  by  the  Board  for  the  ex¬ 
penses  of  outgoing  or  returning  missionaries,  and  all  specific  appropria¬ 
tions  of  the  Board  or  of  the  General  Committee,  except  for  the  purchase 
or  improvement  of  real  estate,  shall  be  paid  by  the  Treasurer,  upon  the 
requisition  of  one  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries,  without  futher  action 
by  the  Board.  Except  when  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Board  payments 
made  in  foreign  countries  are  to  be  by  letters  of  credit  or  bills  of  exchange 
to  the  order  of  the  Superintendent  or  Treasurer  of  the  Mission;  and  pay¬ 
ments  made  in  this  country  on  account  of  Foreign  Missions  may  be  made 
by  draft  of  one  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  upon  the  Treasurer, 
payable  to  the  order  of  the  person  entitled  to  receive  the  same,  and  the 
Treasurer  shall  not  be  authorized  to  pay  any  other. 

But  where  the  appropriation  is  general,  and  for  a  Mission  not  yet  oc¬ 
cupied,  and  where  the  Bishop  in  charge  shall  have  appointed  a  mission¬ 
ary,  the  Board  has  power  to  determine  what  portion  of  such  appropriation 
shall  be  applied  to  particular  objects,  and  what  amount  may  be  placed  at 
the  discretion  of  the  Superintendent  or  other  persons  for  general  purposes; 
and  when  the  Board  has  so  determined  the  Corresponding  Secretaries 
may  make  requisition  for  the  payment  of  such  sums  in  manner  and  form 
as  above  stated. 


1889J  BY-LAWS.  39  7 

Office  and  incidental  expenses  shall  be  audited  by  the  Corresponding 
Secretaries  and  paid  to  their  order  on  the  face  of  the  original  bills. 

No  missionary  or  other  person,  other  than  the  Corresponding  Secre¬ 
taries,  shall  be  allowed  to  make  drafts  on  the  Treasurer  for  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions,  except  on  letters  of  credit  duly  issued. 

Real  estate  may  be  purchased  for  the  Society,  and  improvements  made 
on  real  estate,  by  the  erection  of  buildings  or  otherwise,  only  by  direct 
order  of  the  Board,  and  by  persons  specially  authorized  and  appointed  to 
make  such  purchase  or  improvement. 

And  where  the  General  Committee  make  a  special  appropriation  for 
the  purchase  or  improvement  of  real  estate  in  any  Mission,  as  the  admin¬ 
istration  of  appropriations  and  the  management  of  the  property  of  the 
Society  is  with  the  Board  of  Managers,  the  Board  shall  determine  the  time 
and  manner  of  payment,  and  designate  the  person  by  whom  such  appro¬ 
priation  shall  be  expended,  before  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  are  au¬ 
thorized  to  make  requisition  therefor. 

Appropriations  and  balances  of  appropriations  unexpended  at  the  close 
of  the  fiscal  year,  of  any  Mission,  whether  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer 
of  the  Society,  or  any  of  its  agents,  shall  lapse  to  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Society,  and  may  not  be  thereafter  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  they 
were  appropriated,  except  to  discharge  pre-existing  obligations. 


in. 

STANDING  COMMITTEES  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  in  June  of  each  year  the  following 
Standing  Committees  shall  be  appointed  : 

I.  On  Missions  In  Africa. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  Africa  which  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the 
Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

II.  On  Missions  in  South  America  and  Mexico. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  South  America  and  Mexico  which  may  be 
referred  to  it  by  the  Board  or  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

III.  On  Missions  in  China. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  China  which  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the 
Board  or  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

IV.  On  Missions  in  Japan  and  Korea. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  Japan  and  Korea  which  may  be  referred 
to  it  by  the  Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 


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[1889. 


V.  On  Self-Supporting  Missions. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  self-supporting  Missions  which  may  be  referred  to  it 
by  the  Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

VI.  On  Missions  in  Europe. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  Europe  which  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the 
Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

VII.  On  Missions  in  India. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  Missions  in  India  and  Malaysia  referred  to  it  by  the 
Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

VIII.  On  Domestic  Missions.  . 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  American  Domestic  Missions,  Indian  Missions,  and 
Missions  among  Foreign  Populations  in  the  United  States,  which  may  be 
referred  to  it  by  the  Board  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

IX.  On  Finance. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  aid  the  Treasurer  in  providing 
ways  and  means.  Said  Committee  shall  have  power  to  advise  the  Treas¬ 
urer  as  to  the  deposit  of  all  uninvested  moneys  of  the  Society,  and,  in  the 
intervals  between  the  sessions  of  the  Board,  to  direct  him  in  respect  to 
all  investments,  loans,  and  other  financial  affairs  of  the  Society.  It  shall 
also  have  the  management,  care,  and  supervision  of  the  interests  of  the 
Missionary  Society  in  the  building  known  as  the  Methodist  Publishing  and 
Mission  Building,  subject  to  the  order  of  the  Board  ;  also  to  consider  and 
report  on  such  financial  matters  as  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the  Board, 
Treasurer,  or  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

X.  On  Lands  and  Legacies. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
bequests  made  to  the  Society,  and  questions  arising  under  wills,  or  con¬ 
cerning  lands  temporarily  held  by  the  Society,  referred  to  it  by  the  Board, 
the  Corresponding  Secretaries,  or  Treasurer. 

XI.  On  Publications. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  publish  as  instructed  by  the 
Board,  and  consider  matters  respecting  publications  referred  to  it  by  the 
Board  or  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

XII.  On  Woman’s  Mission  Work. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  consider  and  report  on  all 
matters  relating  to  the  work  of  women  in  the  mission  field,  and  to  the 
Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  referred  to  it  by  the  Board  or  the 
Corresponding  Secretaries. 


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XIII.  On  Estimates. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  Committee  to  make  an  estimate  of  the  salary 
to  be  paid  to  any  person  engaged,  not  in  the  Missions,  but  in  the  imme¬ 
diate  service  of  this  Board  ;  and  also  estimates  for  such  incidental  ex¬ 
penditures  as  may  have  no  special  relation  to  any  particular  Mission,  and 
which  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the  Board,  Treasurer,  or  a  Secretary. 

XIV.  On  Nominations  and  General  Reference. 

This  Committee  shall  consist  of  the  chairmen  of  the  several  standing 
committees,  and  its  duty  shall  be  to  nominate  members  of  the  standing 
committees,  and  suitable  persons  to  fill  all  vancancies  that  may  occur  in 
the  Board  of  Managers,  or  in  the  list  of  officers,  during  the  year.  The 
vote  of  the  Board  on  such  nominations  shall  be  by  ballot.  This  Com¬ 
mittee  shall  be  the  Committee  on  Anniversaries  and  Public  Meetings  and 
for  the  examination  of  candidates  for  mission  fields ;  it  shall  also  consider 
and  report  upon  all  matters  which  may,  from  time  to  time,  be  referred  to 
it  by  the  Board. 

XV.  On  Audits. 

There  shall  be  two  Committees  on  Audits — one  in  New  York,  and  the 
other  in  Cincinnati.  The  former  shall  audit  the  accounts  of  the  Treasurer, 
and  the  latter  the  accounts  of  the  Assistant  Treasurer  annually,  or  oftener 
if  they  deem  it  necessary,  or  if  ordered  by  the  Board  ;  and  such  other 
accounts  as  may  be  referred  to  it  by  the  Board. 

General  Rules. 

1.  The  standing  committees  shall,  at  their  first  meeting  after  election, 
elect  their  own  permanent  chairman,  and  if  he  be  absent  at  any  meeting 
they  shall  choose  a  chairman  pro  tem .  Each  committee  shall  cause  to  be 
recorded  correct  minutes  of  all  the  business  brought  before  it,  and  the  dis¬ 
position  of  the  same,  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose,  which  shall  be 
brought  to  the  regular  meetings  of  the  Board ;  and  said  committee  may 
hold  a  regular  meeting  once  in  each  month,  or  meet  at  the  call  of  its 
chairman,  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  or  Treasurer. 

2.  Each  committee  having  charge  of  a  particular  Mission  shall  make 
out  estimates  for  the  Mission  under  its  charge,  to  be  laid  before  the  Gen¬ 
eral  Missionary  Committee  at  its  annual  meeting,  to  guide  it  in  making 
the  appropriations  for  the  ensuing  year. 

3.  The  Treasurer  shall  be  ex  officio  a  member,  and  the  Corresponding 
Secretaries  advisory  members  without  a  vote,  of  each  of  the  standing 
committees,  except  the  Committees  on  Estimates  and  on  Audits  ;  and  the 
Bishop  having  charge  of  a  Foreign  Mission  shall  be  an  ex-officio  member 
of  the  respective  committees  having  charge  of  the  same. 

4.  When  any  matter  is  referred  to  a  committee  with  power  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  committee  to  report  its  final  action  in  the  case  to  the 
Board,  for  record  in  the  minutes  of  its  proceedings. 


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[1889. 


IV. 

MEETINGS  OF  THE  BOARD,  ORDER  OF  BUSINESS,  AND 

R  ULES  OF  DEB  A  TE. 

I.  Meetings  of  the  Board. 

1.  The  Board  shall  hold  its  regular  meetings  on  the  third  Tuesday  of 
each  month,  at  3:30  o’clock  P.  M.,  at  the  Mission  Rooms  of  the  Society. 

2.  The  presiding  officer  shall  preserve  order,  keep  the  speaker  to  the 
point  under  consideration,  and  appoint  committees  not  otherwise  provided 
for.  He  shall  not  take  part  in  debate,  nor  propose  any  new  measure, 
unless  he  first  leave  the  chair  ;  but  he  may  vote  as  any  other  member. 

3.  All  meetings  of  the  Board  shall  open  with  reading  the  Scriptures 
and  prayer  and  close  with  prayer  or  the  benediction,  under  the  direction 
of  the  chairman. 

4.  A  Corresponding  Secretary,  or  the  Treasurer,  or  any  five  Managers, 
may  call  a  speeial  meeting  of  the  Board. 

II.  Order  of  Business. 

1.  Reading  the  Scriptures  and  prayer. 

2.  The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting  shall  be  read,  and,  when  ap¬ 
proved,  signed  by  the  presiding  officer. 

3.  The  Treasurer’s  monthly  statement  and  that  of  the  Assistant 
Treasurer. 

4.  Report  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

5.  Reports  from  the  standing  committees,  in  the  following  order : 
Africa ;  South  America  and  Mexico  ;  China ;  Japan  and  Korea ;  Self- 
Supporting  Missions  ;  Europe  ;  India,  Domestic  ;  Finance  ;  Lands  and 
Legacies;  Publications;  Woman’s  Mission  Work;  Estimates;  Nomina¬ 
tions  and  General  Reference  ;  Audits.  The  reports  of  each  committee  to 
be  made  by  simply  reading  the  minutes  of  its  proceedings,  upon  which 
the  Board  shall  take  such  action  as  the  case  may  require.  When  any 
one  of  the  standing  commitees  may  be  called  in  the  regular  proceedings 
of  the  Board  it  shall  be  in  order  to  present  any  miscellaneous  business 
pertaining  to  the  particular  matters  of  which  that  committee  has  charge, 
as  well  as  to  receive  and  consider  any  reports  from  the  committee. 

6.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

7.  Unfinished  business. 

8.  Miscellaneous  business. 

The  Board  shall  appoint  in  the  month  of  October-  in  each  year  the 
members  of  the  General  Missionary  Committee  to  which  it  is  entitled,  ac¬ 
cording  to  the  provision  of  Art.  XI  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Missionary 
Society. 

III.  Rules  for  the  Transaction  of  Business. 

1.  A  motion  having  been  made,  seconded,  and  stated  from  the  Chair, 
shall  be  considered  in  possession  of  the  Board,  but  may  be  withdrawn  by 
the  mover  before  any  action  is  taken  on  it.  Every  motion  shall  be  reduced 
to  writing  if  the  presiding  officer,  or  any  other  member,  require  it ;  and, 


BY-LAWS. 


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when  the  question  contains  several  distinct  propositions,  any  member  may 
have  the  same  divided. 

2.  A  motion  to  amend  shall  be  considered  first  in  order,  and  shall  be 
decided  before  the  original  motion  ;  and  a  substitute  for  any  pending  mo¬ 
tion  or  amendment  may  be  offered,  and  shall,  if  it  prevail,  supersede  the 
original  motion  or  proposed  amendment,  and  may  itself  be  amended. 

3.  Every  member  wishing  to  speak  shall  rise  and  address  the  Chair, 
and  no  one  shall  speak  more  than  once  on  one  question,  until  every  mem¬ 
ber  desiring  to  speak  shall  have  spoken  ;  and  no  member  shall  speak  over 
fifteen  minutes  without  the  permission  of  the  Board. 

4.  Motions  to  lay  on  the  table,  and  motions  that  the  previous  question 
be  put,  shall  be  taken  without  debate. 

5.  When  a  report  is  presented  by  a  committee  it  shall  be  considered 
in  possession  of  the  Board,  and  may  be  adopted,  amended,  recommitted, 
laid  on  the  table,  or  otherwise  disposed  of,  as  the  Board  mayjudge  proper. 

6.  It  shall  always  be  deemed  out  of  order  to  use  personal  reflections  ip 
debate,  or  to  interrupt  a  speaker,  except  to  explain  or  call  him  to  order. 

7.  It  shall  be  deemed  out  of  order  for  any  member  to  leave  the  meeting 
without  the  permission  of  the  Chair  or  the  Board. 

8.  A  motion  to  adjourn  shall  always  be  considered  in  order,  and  shall 
be  taken  without  debate. 

9.  A  call  of  the  ayes  and  noes  shall  be  ordered  on  the  demand  of  any 
five  members  present. 

10.  Any  decision  of  the  presiding  officer  shall  be  subject  to  an  appeal 
to  the  Board,  and  such  appeal  shall  be  decided  without  debate  ;  but  the 
presiding  officer  may  assign  his  reasons  for  his  decision. 

11.  When  a  question  has  been  once  put  and  decided  it  shall  be  in 
order  for  any  member  who  voted  in  the  majority  to  move  for  the  recon¬ 
sideration  thereof ;  but  no  motion  for  reconsideration  shall  be  taken  more  , 
than  once. 

v. 

REPORTS  FROM  MISSIONS. 

Each  missionary  shall  report  to  his  Superintendent  once  a  quarter,  in  writ¬ 
ing,  the  state  and  prospects  of  the  special  work  in  which  he  is  engaged. 

Each  Superintendent  of  Missions,  and  where  there  is  no  Superintendent 
each  missionary,  shall  make  a  regular  quarterly  report  to  the  Correspond¬ 
ing  Secretaries  at  New  York,  giving  information  of  the  state  and  prospects ' 
of  the  several  missions  under  his  care. 


VI. 


PUBLICATION  AND  AMENDMENT  OF  BY-LA  WS. 

1.  The  Charter,  the  Constitution  of  the  Society,  and  the  By-laws  shall 
be  published  with  each  Annual  Report. 

2.  The  Board  of  Managers  shall  not  make,  alter,  or  amend  any  By¬ 
law,  except  at  the  regular  monthly  meeting  thereof,  norat  the  same  meet¬ 
ing  at  which  such  By-law,  alteration,  or  amendment  may  be  proposed. 

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ORDER  OF  BUSINESS 


4T  THE  MEETINGS  OF  THE 

BOARD  OF  MANAGERS. 


1.  Reading  the  Scriptures  and  Prayer. 

2.  Reading  the  Minutes  of  previous  meeting. 

3.  Treasurer’s  Monthly  Statement. 

4.  Report  of  Corresponding  Secretaries. 

5.  Reports  of  Standing  Committees  : 

1.  Africa. 

2.  South  America  and  Mexico. 

3.  China. 

4.  Japan  and  Korea. 

5.  Self-supporting  Missions. 

6.  Europe. 

7.  India. 

8.  Domestic  Missions. 

9.  Finance. 

10.  Lands  and  Legacies. 

11.  Publications. 

12.  Woman’s  Mission  Work. 

13.  Estimates. 

14.  Nominations  and  General  Reference. 

15.  Audits. 

6.  Reports  of  Special  Committees. 

7.  Unfinished  Business. 

8.  Miscellaneous  Business. 

9.  Benediction  and  Adjournment. 


BEQUESTS  AND  DEVISES 

TO  THE 

MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 


Persons  disposed  to  make  bequests  to  the  Society,  by  will, 
are  requested  to  observe  the  following  form  : 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  “The  Missionary  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  incorporated  by  the  Legis¬ 
lature  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  sum  of  , 

and  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  thereof  shall  be  a  sufficient 
discharge  to  my  executors  for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  A  DEVISE  OF  LAND  TO  SAID  SOCIETY. 

I  give  and  devise  to  “The  Missionary  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,”  incorporated  by  the  Legis¬ 
lature  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the  following  lands  and 
premises,  that  is  to  say  : 

To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  with  the  appurtenances  to  the 
said  Society,  its  successors  and  assigns  forever. 

Brethren  in  the  ministry,  and  laity  also,  are  requested 
to  inquire  promptly  and  carefully  into  the  facts  of  any  will 
which  they  may  hear  contains  a  bequest  to  the  Missionary 
Society,  and  send  us  as  early  as  practicable  a  transcript  of 
such  will,  or  whatever  information  they  may  obtain  touching 
the  same.  We  have  reason  to  believe  bequests  are  left  to  the 

Missionary  Society  of  which  we  have  never  been  advised. 

* 

mil0*  Subscriptions  and  donations  for  the  Missionary  So¬ 
ciety  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  may  be  sent  to  the 
Treasurer,  at  New  York;  the  Assistant  Treasurer,  at  Cincin¬ 
nati  ;  or  paid  to  the  Presiding  Elder  of  the  District,  or  the 
preacher  in  the  circuit  or  station  to  which  the  contributor 
belongs. 


